Lexical Inventions: French Interlanguage as L2 versus L3

A study investigated "lexical inventions" in the advanced oral French of 39 native Dutch-speakers, 32 of whom had French as a second language (L2) and English as a third language (L3), with the others having L2 English and L3 French. A higher proportion of lexical inventions produced by Fr...

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Published inApplied linguistics Vol. 19; no. 4; p. 471
Main Author Dewaele, Jean-Marc
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.12.1998
Subjects
Applied Linguistics
Dutch
English
French
Interlanguage
Language Research
Multilingualism
Oral Language
Second Language Learning
Transfer of Training
Uncommonly Taught Languages
Vocabulary Development
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Summary:A study investigated "lexical inventions" in the advanced oral French of 39 native Dutch-speakers, 32 of whom had French as a second language (L2) and English as a third language (L3), with the others having L2 English and L3 French. A higher proportion of lexical inventions produced by French L2 speakers derived from non-standard use of target-language rules. (Author/MSE)
ISSN:0142-6001
DOI:10.1093/applin/19.4.471